Harold Ramis

“Billy Crystal knows how to make people laugh. He's got 30 years on stage... there's no telling him what's funny.”

“I had a dream cast when Dan first went off and wrote 'Ghostbusters 3' by himself. It was so long ago that my dream cast was Ben Stiller, Chris Farley, and Chris Rock. That would have been cool. Now, a lot of time has passed, and there are a lot of young funny people.”

“The best description of the Old Testament that I heard was that it starts out as mythology, then it becomes legend, then it becomes history. In the mythological period - there is a distinct mythological period in the Old Testament, where the time spans are impossible and really just imagined.”

“We all wish we could be in more than one place at the same time. People with families feel guilty all the time-if we spend too much time with our family, we feel we're not working hard enough.”

“There's a personal story of my own that I will write at some point, and it's a film that I will happily make. It could very well be the next thing I do, unless someone shows me something great.”

“Nothing reinforces a professional relationship more than enjoying success with someone.”

“You just make sure you don't screw it up. It's going to work as long as you don't mess it up. Hopefully you have plenty of those moments in a big comedy.”

“Chicago still remains a Mecca of the Midwest - people from both coasts are kind of amazed how good life is in Chicago and what a good culture we've got. You can have a pretty wonderful artistic life and never leave Chicago.”

“No matter what I have to say, I'm still trying to say it in comedic form.”

“A psychologist said to me, there are only two important questions you have to ask yourself. What do you really feel? And, what do you really want? If you can answer those two, you probably can leave your neuroses behind you.”

“We were tremendously encouraged by the testing of Analyze That. Audiences loved it. They were telling us that they liked it as much as the original. We recorded the laughs in the theater.”

“The comic edge of 'Ghostbusters' will always be the same. It's still treating the supernatural with a totally mundane sensibility.”

“Acting is all about big hair and funny props... All the great actors knew it. Olivier knew it, Brando knew it.”

“I never read Playboy before I started working there and stopped reading it the day I quit.”

“The movie 'Vacation' had a whole different ending. They never even got to the amusement park, Wallyworld, at the end of 'Vacation.' The last 20 minutes of the film was entirely different - and bombed so badly that the audience just stopped cold.”

“If Chevy Chase had not been an actor, he might have been a very popular guy in advertising, or whatever field he would have gone into, because of his charisma.”

“I'm not a believer in the pratfall. I don't think it's funny just to have someone fall down.”

“The simple idiot's advice I give to screenwriters who say they want to sell a screenplay is, 'Write good.'”

“Ernie Hudson was new to the comedy world, and being the fourth Ghostbuster, he would have ideas, and he would talk to Ivan Reitman, and Ivan would kind of put him off. I could see how disappointed he was.”

“We are all several different people. There are different aspects of our nature that are competing.”